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First Trailer for ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ Is Here

With only days to go until the first official trailer for the latest installment in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise drops in theaters in 3D with “Tron: Legacy,” fans can check it out in 2D, as it has just been released online. It’s no longer news by now that “On Strang...

14 December 2010
03:52 GMT

Tron: Evolution

Like any self-respecting entertainment company these days, Disney decided to celebrate the release of the upcoming Tron: Legacy movie with a tie-in video game, Tron: Evolution, which has been developed by the team at Propaganda Games. Set to act as a prequel for the action in the movie, featuring the likenesses of...

10 December 2010
06:30 GMT

Quick Look: Tron: Evolution

Disney will continue the story of cult classic Tron later this month through Tron: Legacy, so what better way to celebrate the new movie than with a tie-in game, manufactured by Propaganda Games. As such, Tron: Evolution has been revealed, a third person action adventure title with an emphasis on platforming, in t...

7 December 2010
12:01 GMT

‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ 5 and 6 Shooting Back to Back

Disney is dreaming big: shooting for the fourth “Pirates of the Caribbean” film, “On Stranger Tides,” a wrap, the movie studio is looking into making the new film into a trilogy as well, it has emerged. As fans must know, the first three “Pirates” films are seen as a whole, whi...

4 December 2010
05:01 GMT

TRON Legacy Light Cycle USB Drives Outed by Disney

Since just about every true fan of the original TRON movies is anxiously waiting for the release of its modern-day successor, TRON:Legacy, it should come as no surprise that quite a few high-tech paraphernalia items related to the movie are starting to make their way online, the latest we've come across being of...

30 November 2010
03:50 GMT

‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1’ Rules Thanksgiving Weekend

The latest installment in the “Harry Potter” franchise has managed to come atop the Thanksgiving weekend despite the fact that several new releases vied for the same position. As early estimates had it, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” is definitely en route to becoming the bigge...

29 November 2010
10:13 GMT

Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game Announced

A few weeks after Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned was canceled, Disney, together with TT Games, have announced that a new game based on the property will be made, Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game.As you all know by now, Disney canceled the Armada of the Damned title after it was in develop...

22 November 2010
02:37 GMT

Third 'Tron' Movie Is Already in the Works

Though it's being marketed as a stand-alone movie, “Tron: Legacy” is actually the sequel to the 1982 “Tron,” a little detail that might be lost on non-fans. A third film may already be in the works, even though “Legacy” is still to arrive in theaters. Mark Malkin of E! Online ...

21 November 2010
05:19 GMT

New ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 4’ Poster Is One Major Tease

The fourth “Pirates of the Caribbean” film doesn’t drop until May 2011, but this is just as good a time as always for Disney to start teasing it. Case in point, the first teaser poster for it, which has just hit the web. Though it appears to be very similar to posters released for the previous &ldqu...

16 November 2010
10:49 GMT

How New Disney Technology Made Jeff Bridges Young Again for ‘Tron: Legacy’

Disney’s much-hyped “Tron: Legacy” arrives in theaters starting December 17 and, aside from the mind-blowing special effects used to make it, another thing that’s getting a lot of attention is the technology used to “youngify” actor Jeff Bridges. According to visual effects supervi...

16 November 2010
04:54 GMT

Demi Lovato’s Disney Show Goes On Without Her – For Now

About a fortnight ago, Disney star Demi Lovato admitted herself to a treatment facility for personal issues her rep would not speak of with the media. Her show “Sonny with a Chance” has been readjusted until she gets back.Ever since word got out in the media that Demi was seeking professional treatment in...

15 November 2010
10:55 GMT

Epic Mickey Is the Best Looking Wii Game Ever, Spector Says

Warren Spector, the boss of Junction Point Studio and the man behind franchises like the critically acclaimed Deus Ex, has revealed that his newest project, Epic Mickey, is without a doubt the best looking Wii game ever.We've already heard Spector and his team applaud his own creation a few months ago, but with ...

15 November 2010
02:27 GMT

Tom Hardy and Angelina Jolie in New, Live-Action ‘Snow White’

British actor Tom Hardy, whom fans saw last in this summer’s “Inception” blockbuster, is officially the hottest commodity in Hollywood right now: his name has just been thrown in the mix with that of Angelina Jolie.Disney movies may be a hit with audiences of all ages, but Disney movies adapted into...

27 October 2010
11:12 GMT

Epic Mickey Will Have a Variety of Endings

One of the developers who is working at Junction Point on the new Epic Mickey video game has stated that the game will have a number of different endings which will be heavily influenced by the choices a player makes while going through the game.Adam Creighton, who is a producer working on the Disney character based ...

26 October 2010
15:01 GMT

Disney to Cut All Keith Richards’ Scenes from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 4’

Disney doesn’t condone drug use – not to mention like it when one of the stars of its upcoming movie offers free advice on how to get high without risking your health. As such, it wants Keith Richards out of “Pirates 4.”Shortly after the veteran rocker confirmed that he would be reprising his ...

24 October 2010
05:52 GMT

Sony Announces PlayStation 2 and Toy Story 3 Limited Edition Bundle

Hardware maker and video game publisher Sony has announced that it will be putting on sales a limited edition bundle of its PlayStation 2 home gaming console packed with Toy Story 3, the title created by Disney Interactive based on the popular movie series.The pairing between the PS2 and Toy Story 3 has a launch date...

21 October 2010
04:32 GMT

‘Iron Man 3’ Release Date Announced

Not that anyone doubted that a third “Iron Man” film would be made, but fans can now breathe easy knowing that it’s coming – in May 2013, distributed locally and internationally through Disney. Coming Soon informs that Disney, Paramount and Marvel have reached an agreement under which Paramoun...

19 October 2010
06:31 GMT

Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned Axed, Studio Hit With Layoffs

Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned has been canceled, as Disney confirms that the whole project was scrapped and the development studio, Propaganda, will employ major layoffs today.Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned was set to use Disney's blockbuster franchise to push a whole new type of...

15 October 2010
02:20 GMT

Epic Mickey Pushes the Nintendo Wii to Its Ultimate Limit, Disney Says

Without a doubt one of the most interesting third party titles coming to the Nintendo Wii this holiday season is Disney's Epic Mickey, a darker approach to the adventures of the cartoon mouse, one which, according to the game's producer, will push the Nintendo Wii console to its "ultimate limit."The Nintend...

28 September 2010
02:27 GMT

Epic Mickey Will Be True to the Legacy of the Character

The designer working on the upcoming Epic Mickey project, Warren Spector, has said that his video game will aim to reinvent the classic Disney character but will not take liberties that feel out of place to its legacy and its character.Warren Spector, the designer of the game told an audience of journalists, “M...

8 September 2010
14:51 GMT

Light Cycle Is Part of Tron Evolution Collector's Edition

Disney Interactive Studios has announced the Collector's Edition for the upcoming Tron Evolution, the light cycle based video game that will arrive on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and on the PlayStation 3 from Sony on December 7, a week earlier than the new Tron movie.Players will also be able to pick up the vide...

2 September 2010
06:05 GMT

Disney Buys Social Gaming Company Playdom for $732.6 Million

Social gaming is the latest craze for investors. Whether it’s justified or not is debatable, but at least these companies are making money. With Zynga valuated at several billion dollars and no intentions to sell, those wanting to get in on the game, so to speak, are looking elsewhere. For Disney, this meant Pl...

28 July 2010
06:29 GMT

Disney Acquires Social Games Developer Playdom

Walt Disney Co. has announced that it has bought social game developer Playdom for 563.2 million dollars. The company's shareholders will receive an additional 200 million based on its performance after the acquisition, growing the sum to a staggering 763.2 million dollars. Disney plans to expand on its digital ...

28 July 2010
04:51 GMT

Guillermo del Toro Will Direct New 3D ‘Haunted Mansion’ Film

When Disney rush released “Haunted Mansion” in 2003, reportedly hoping to capitalize on the “Pirated of the Caribbean” frenzy, fans were not exactly pleased with the result, with critics thrashing it for compromising story for money. Now, years later, Disney is again working on a film based on...

24 July 2010
05:26 GMT

Disney Acquires Tap Tap Revenge Developer, Tapulous

Disney has announced the acquisition of Palo Alto-based Tapulous, Inc., a leading iOS developer best known for its Tap Tap Revenge series of video-games. Tap Tap Revenge is a music game created by Nate True, and developed and published by Tapulous for the iOS in July 2008. Since then, the franchise has spurred se...

2 July 2010
04:29 GMT

Script for “Pirates of the Caribbean 4” Found Abandoned in Café

Disney Pictures was on the verge of a catastrophe the other day, when the script for the upcoming “Pirates of the Caribbean” film, “On Stranger Tides,” was found abandoned in a café in London. Luckily for the movie studio – but perhaps not so for fans of the franchise – the ...

22 June 2010
10:45 GMT

Free Toy Story 3 App Now in the App Store

Disney Interactive has announced Toy Story 3 for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, an app that lets fans play, personalize and follow their favorite Toy Story characters in their adventures. Users get both free and premium content that can be purchased within the app (ranging in price from $.99 to $3.99) in what is Di...

16 June 2010
10:08 GMT

Disney Working on Live-Action ‘Cinderella’ Remake

After the success Disney had with Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” a remake of the classic tale served in 3D, the movie studio is pitching another film in the same vein, though this time inspired from one of its most popular cartoons. Disney is ironing out the details for a live-action remake of ...

20 May 2010
04:51 GMT

Disney Confirms ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 4’ Will Shoot in 3D

Earlier reports had it that Disney had come up with a strategy to cut production costs and the budget for the upcoming installment in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, “On Stranger Tides.” Seemingly, another way of maximizing profit has been found, as the studio has just confirmed the ...

19 May 2010
10:22 GMT

Teri Hatcher and Disney Launch Website for Women

Teri Hatcher, whom fans know and love from the highly popular series “Desperate Housewives,” is also a very accomplished editor with renowned publications like Glamour UK and Newsweek. Tapping into her experience as an editor, Disney has offered the star another challenge with the aim of expanding its aud...

31 March 2010
04:13 GMT

Angelina Jolie as Maleficent in New ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Project

In light of the success of “Alice in Wonderland,” Disney is pushing around several projects dealing with re-telling classic stories from different perspectives. One such project that has been around for quite a while is “Magnificent,” which would tackle the story of “Sleeping Beauty&rdqu...

29 March 2010
09:01 GMT

‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Takes Down ‘Alice’ at US Box Office

Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” ended its three-week run at the number-one spot of the US box office with the release of Disney’s animated 3D “How to Train Your Dragon,” with voices by Gerard Butler, America Ferrera and Jay Baruchel. The film took in $43.3 million domestically i...

29 March 2010
05:48 GMT

Disney Plans to Create Marvel-Based Videogames

One of the biggest pieces of entertainment news of 2009 was the acquisition of Marvel, the comic book publisher, by The Walt Disney Company for about 4 billion dollars. Not a lot has been announced since then about the relation between the two companies but it seems that some of the first projects following the merge...

19 March 2010
04:32 GMT

Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force: Herbert's Revenge Coming in the Summer

Disney Interactive Studios has announced that it is developing Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force: Herbert's Revenge. The game is set to be released on the Nintendo DS line of handhelds and is currently slated to come out during the summer season. This announcement came as Disney is aiming to focus on delivering ...

22 February 2010
03:24 GMT

Disney Ready to Launch Toy Story 3 on June 15

Disney has announced that it is currently developing a Toy Story 3 videogame set to be released at the same time as the homonymous movie on June 15. The new experience should be launched on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation Portable, the DS and the PC.The deve...

18 February 2010
04:34 GMT

Miramax Films Is Dead

Miramax Films, which has given fans such gems like “Pulp Fiction,” “Reservoir Dogs” and “The English Patient,” to name just three of its biggest releases throughout time, has faded to black. Acquired by Disney, the artsy movie studio made less and less films in recent months, all l...

29 January 2010
09:47 GMT

The Obama Children Have Strict Rules for TV Watching

These days, a lot of emphasis is placed on the kind of shows that air on television, as well as on the part parents should be playing in their children’s TV habits. The US First Family, for instance, is one that believes limits and rules must be established so that whatever children watch on TV is first filtere...

14 January 2010
05:01 GMT

TRON: Evolution Will Star Olivia Wilde

Disney Interactive Studios has confirmed that it is developing a TRON videogame, called Evolution, which is set to be released at some point during the 2010 holiday season just before the TRON: Legacy movie is launched in theaters.The game should be developed for the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Xbox 360 from Microso...

15 December 2009
18:21 GMT

‘The Princess and the Frog’ Tops US Box-Office

There is no better time of the year to release animation films or movies that are based on well-known and popular children’s stories as Christmas. On Friday, Disney premiered its much hyped 2D animation film, “The Princess and the Frog,” the first ever Disney production to feature a black princess, ...

15 December 2009
10:26 GMT

The New Prince of Persia Was Unveiled at the Video Game Awards

Game unveilings kept pouring in from this year's Video Game Awards, and one of them has a bit of a mind-bend touch to it. Disney already revealed that it would be making a movie adaptation of the Prince of Persia game franchise, and the film would be based on the Sands of Time episode. Also, Ubisoft teased us wi...

14 December 2009
16:31 GMT

Sony, EA, Disney and Ubisoft Are Charged with Copyright Infringements

Ever since the broadband Internet became a household appliance, games have begun to rely more and more on it. So much so that some have even lost the single-player element altogether and now rely on the online community the titles scored to keep themselves alive. Most online games encourage in one way or another a st...

18 November 2009
04:36 GMT

Warren Spector Has a Vision for Deus Ex Successor

Deux Ex has been one of the most important videogames ever created and the man behind it is Warren Spector, the developer who is now in the limelight because of his involvement with Disney on the Epic Mickey Nintendo Wii project. Even at the moment, he is thoroughly dedicated to making the adventure title and is sayi...

5 November 2009
15:51 GMT

Original Artwork for Epic Mickey Will Not Be Used

How far can one go when reinventing something so ubiquitous as Disney cartoon characters? That's just one of the problems faced by Warren Spector, of Deus Ex fame, and his Junction Team development outfit as they work on Epic Mickey, the Nintendo Wii game set to star a host of characters from the back catalog of...

3 November 2009
03:17 GMT

Epic Mickey Might Be a Trilogy

It takes courage to work with Disney properties. The well known characters that the company has created over the years are so clearly defined and so pure in their existence that it's hard to put any creative spin on them.And that's just one of the challenges faced by the newly confirmed Nintendo Wii videoga...

2 November 2009
16:51 GMT

Disney Launches Free iPhone App

Disney has launched a free app for the iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store featuring areas dedicated to Characters, Music, Video and Games. The company promises those who download the app that content in it will be updated regularly, providing instant access to the latest stuff from Disney. One example of how the...

29 October 2009
09:32 GMT

'A Christmas Carol' Will Be Turned into a Game

Games have started to tap into a brand-new source of inspiration. With Dante's Inferno bringing to life Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and probably proving to be a huge hit, it seems developers are willing to take things further. Charles Dickens and his "A Christmas Carol" were chosen as the foundations fo...

7 October 2009
06:51 GMT

Epic Mickey Videogame Confirmed by Disney

Disney has finally confirmed the existence of the Epic Mickey project, a videogame set to be created by Junction Point and aiming to create a very complex experience based upon the large character cast that Disney controls. The game is designed exclusively for the Nintendo Wii home console and should be released at s...

6 October 2009
07:09 GMT

Tron Legacy Videogame in Development

Disney held an event during which it revealed its plans for the future and it seems that one of the biggest news almost did not make it out. Steven Lisberger, who directed the last Tron movie, has confirmed that Disney is working on a videogame tie in for Tron Legacy, set to be released at the same time as the movie ...

15 September 2009
02:41 GMT

Warner Bros. Interested in More Videogame Development

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. announced yesterday that it had set up a new entity called DC Entertainment, with the stated aim of better using DC Comics intellectual property in videogames, in movies and other media. The parent company stated that “prioritize DC properties as key titles and growth drivers acr...

11 September 2009
03:05 GMT

Disney and Nestle Face Domain-Name Problems

Media giant Disney and food-packager Nestle have won cases against different persons that registered domain names similar to their trademarks and used them in bad faith to acquire monetary profit. The domain names are to be transferred as soon as possible to the complainants. Disney, the largest entertainment compan...

7 September 2009
04:09 GMT


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